National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza has clarified concerns about free meat and alcohol at the 2025 State of the Nation Address (Sona), stating that these will only be served after the president’s ...

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its ...

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past ...

Below is a selection of images from the State of the Nation Address (Sona), held on 06 February 2025 in Cape Town.

Sam Nujoma, who led a three-decade-long fight for Namibia's independence from apartheid South Africa, has died aged 95, the ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa had dismissed Trump's assertions earlier this week that South Africa was ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 group on Friday advanced south after seizing the biggest city in mineral-rich eastern DR Congo, in ...

This week 25 families and survivors of apartheid-era crimes have filed an application in the Pretoria High Court against President Cyril Ramaphosa ... and Douglas Gates. Seven others were ...

The World Economic Forum (WEF), held every January in Davos, Switzerland, remains a useful place to take the temperature of global capitalism and to assess its leaders’ outlooks for the year ahead.

Douglas Gibson says that whoever turns the electricity disaster ... We had, of course, been warned by Commander-in-Chief Mr Julius Malema, MP, that President Ramaphosa would not be permitted (by the ...

Douglas Gibson says Parliament is not what it was in the early ... After all, President Zuma appointed Ramaphosa and Gordhan to fix ESKOM a decade ago, long before the current ESKOM board and long ...